This notion of a do-nothing Congress is yet another Democrat fabrication.

In fact, America has a Republican do lots House and a Democrat do little Senate.

According to its Republican Conference, the do lots House this year has adopted 347 bills awaiting votes in the do little Senate. These include serious initiatives to reinvigorate the economy, reduce taxes, speed energy production, slice red tape, expand school choice, extend the flexibility of workers’ hours, enhance federal accountability, and more.

During the 113th Congress, the do lots House passed 511 bills; the do little Senate, 232. The House has taken 480 roll-call (non-voice) votes; the Senate, 256. Obama has signed 108 House-originated bills, but only 37 Senate-born laws. The House has authorized seven appropriations bills and 215 spending amendments; the Senate, Zero each.

Obama ungratefully forgets the do lots House’s favors from early this year. Republican leaders annoyed grassroots conservatives by adopting the sequester-ending Murray-Ryan budget, eliminating the debt ceiling, and passing a $956 billion farm bill. The over-generous do lots House handed Obama these elegantly wrapped gifts in return for ... nothing. Orphaned in the process was Ark. Rep. Tim Griffin and Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio’s game-changing Republican amendment. It would have derailed the imminent, multi-billion-dollar ObamaCare bailout of health insurers’ program-induced financial losses.

Floor votes make vulnerable Democrat senators choose between their often centrist constituents and their typically leftist Big Labor, trial-lawyer, and environmentalist paymasters. So, Reid shields them by letting nearly every House Republican idea grow mold in his office. Spared the inconvenience of angering either people who cast ballots bearing their names or sign checks payable to their campaigns, Reid lets Democrats be all things to all people.

This scenario unfolded on August 1 at 8:37 PM, when the do lots House approved $694 million to fortify the U.S./Mexican border and address the current illegal-alien tsunami.

Meanwhile, the do little Senate didn’t await House action. Had Republicans capitulated and passed Obama’s border proposal verbatim, Senate Democrats could not have responded.

They fled for vacation at 2:39 PM.

This flagrant shirking of solemn duty is routine. Senate Democrats are serial lawbreakers. The 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act states, “On or before April 15 of each year, the Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year.” While the do lots House consistently obeys this federal law, the do little Senate repeatedly has violated it.

Since 2010, Democrats have refused to adopt a budget every year except 2013.
Liberals may argue that the do lots House only advances far-Right veto bait. Wrong!

Among these House bills, 178 passed without opposition, and 98 percent enjoyed bipartisan support. In fact, 55 House-approved bills were introduced by Democrats.

Even if House Republicans passed only Tea Party approved legislation, Reid and the do littles should adopt corresponding measures. Then, in conference committees, competing bills can be forged into compromise language that the House and Senate can enact.

Both sides grit their teeth, squeeze their nostrils shut, and swallow things that will enrage zealots, like me, in their respective camps. But, in the end, legislation should emerge that begins to solve — or at least improve — America’s myriad problems.

But if the do lots House mans the field while do little Senate Democrats scowl in the dugout and won’t come to bat, Obama cannot blame Republicans for not playing ball.

Deroy Murdock is a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. Read more reports from Deroy Murdock — Click Here Now.